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The United States and the European Community, concluding a heated round of negotiations in Brussels and Washington, said Friday they reached an agreement to limit Common Market steel exports to 5.5 percent of the U.S. market. The agreement, which extends through September, 1989, comes only a day after steel import figures released by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) in Washington showed steel imports from the Common Market had surged nearly 50 percent in September from August levels.

The United States and the European Community, concluding a heated round of negotiations in Brussels and Washington, said Friday they reached an agreement to limit Common Market steel exports to 5.5 percent of the U.S. market. The agreement, which extends through September, 1989, comes only a day after steel import figures released by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) in Washington showed steel imports from the Common Market had surged nearly 50 percent in September from August levels.

* Chevron letter comes same day Alon announces shutdown of Calif. plants * Chevron will replace piping suspected of corrosion at refinery (Adds details, background) HOUSTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp said the damaged central crude distillation unit at its 245,000 barrel per day (bpd) Richmond, California, refinery should be repaired and ready for restart by the first quarter of 2013, according to a letter sent to California pollution regulators and released by Chevron on Wednesday.

Before the food processor, there was the chef's knife, a sturdy piece of low tech hardware that kitchen professionals will tell you is the single most important tool of their trade. Like a food processor, it chops, shreds, slices and minces. But unlike a processor, it is a personal tool that serves only as well as your skill and its quality allow. There are still enough of us who prefer to grab a chef's knife for chopping or mincing an onion, or making julienne carrots or dicing tomatoes.

GLANCING BACK THROUGH history, one is reminded that the first tool crafted by human hands was probably a crude prototype of what we now know as a knife, a rather handy implement that has helped immeasurably in humankind's progress toward civilization. Even among an array of today's highly charged high-tech gadgetry, the kitchen knife remains the single most useful item in the modern household. And though at least one reasonably sharp knife is a common item in every kitchen, a certain aura of mystery and perhaps even a bit of fear continue to surround this implement.

* Failed pipe made of low-silicon carbon steel * Component not one of those inspected in Nov. 2011 * Analysts have been targeting 3-6 months for repairs * Separate sulfur dioxide pipe probe continues (Adds detail from regulatory body meeting in Richmond) By Braden Reddall RICHMOND, Calif., Sept 24 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp needs a few more weeks to assess damage at its plant in Richmond, California, and does not yet know how long it will need to repair its crude unit after an early August fire damaged the state's second-biggest refinery, its general manager said on Monday.

Rather than continue their costly bidding battle for Lukens Inc., Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Allegheny Teledyne Inc. said Wednesday they have agreed to cut up the steelmaker, giving each rival the operations it most wanted. Under the three-way deal, Bethlehem Steel will acquire Lukens--one of the nation's oldest companies, dating to 1810-- for $30 a share in cash and stock, or $740 million, including debt. Bethlehem then will sell three Lukens stainless-steel facilities to Allegheny Teledyne for $175 million.

Without question the most useful tool in the kitchen, after your hands, is a good set of knives. Just watch a fine chef chop an onion perfectly or mince some herbs in less time than you can put the proper blade in your food processor and turn it on, and you`ll understand why serious cooks value good knife skills. Becoming adept with a knife is not difficult. Like any new skill it takes a bit of practice but, once learned, it is far easier, better and faster than your old ways. CHOOSING THE RIGHT KNIFE The most important knife of all, the one that does up to 85 percent of the work in the kitchen, is the chef's knife.

In one corner, a huge hunk of metal with two Plexiglas doors and enough knobs to stir the imagination looks like a time machine. In another an "agitated kettle" with a large, caldronlike bowl sits on thick pallets. These machines, along with $27 million worth of bottle cappers, hair-spray fillers, potato-chip sorters and other huge gizmos, once the humming machines of American manufacturing, now sit ghostlike in Loeb Equipment & Appraisal Co.'s warehouses. The Chicago-based company's inventory of machines ballooned 20 percent from last year and may grow as more plants continue to close.

- Acme Steel Co. said it plans to acquire Sudbury Inc.'s Alpha Tube and Beta Tube business for undisclosed terms. Alpha Tube makes welded carbon steel tubing and had sales of about $60 million in its most recent fiscal year.